San Francisco orders Apple, Google to remove nudify apps from app stores

Ars Technica
By Ashley BelangerJul 17, 2026, 12:10 pm91 pts
This week, San Francisco’s attorney general, David Chiu, sent cease-and-desist letters, demanding that Apple and Google remove 13 so-called nudification apps from their app stores, Wired reported. Nudification apps can make it trivially easy to transform ordinary photos of real people into explicit images. The…

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